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by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (Author)
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  • Hardcover
  • Publisher: Ayer Co Pub; Reprint edition (Jun 1977)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0405092164
  • ISBN-13: 978-0405092169
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)

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`the ideal reading...for the hours after midnight' Thus Henry James described the style of supernatural tale of which Sheridan Le Fanu was a master. Known in nineteenth-century Dublin as `The Invisible Prince' because of his reclusive and nocturnal habits, Le Fanu was fascinated by the occult. His writings draw on the Gothic tradition, elements of Irish folklore, and even on the social and political anxieties of his Anglo-Irish contemporaries. In exploring sometimes inexplicable terrors, the tales focus on the unease of the haunted men and women who encounter the supernatural, rather than on the origin or purpose of the visitant. This makes for spine-chilling reading. The five stories presented here have been collected by Dr Hesselius, a `metaphysical' doctor, the forerunner of the modern psychiatrist, who is willing to consider the ghosts both as real and as hallucinatory obsessions. The reader's doubtful anxiety mimics that of the protagonist, and each story thus creates that atmosphere of mystery which is the supernatural experience. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Robert Tracy has also edited The Macdermots of Ballycloran and Nina Balatka & Linda Tressel for the World's Classics. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The best of le Fanu, 13 May 2000
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This review is from: In a Glass Darkly (Oxford World's Classics) (Paperback)
This is a collection of uncommon merit, and readers will no doubt enjoy such stories as 'Mr Justice Harbottle' quite as much as the renowned vampire tale 'Carmilla'. But to those unfamiliar with the fourth story, 'The Room in the Dragon Volant' one can only say that this haunting, plangent masterpiece is likely to be the most memorable of all. This book contains the best of le Fanu's tales, better than 'Madame Crowl's Ghost', and represents the apogee of Victorian ghostly fiction.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars read on..., 30 Nov 2007
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This review is from: In a Glass Darkly (Oxford World's Classics) (Paperback)
This is a superb collection. Green tea is probably the least good but still good. The Familiar is a great tale of a man haunted by his past and eventually destroyed by it. Mr Justice Harbottle is very endearing and one of my favourite ghost stories. The Room in The Dragon Volant is long but well worth it - what could have been the perfect crime, if only...Carmilla, the vampire tale, is to my mind superior to Stoker's overlong Dracula, and was its inspiration.
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18 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars An Apt Title., 15 Jun 2007
This review is from: In a Glass Darkly (Wordsworth Classics) (Paperback)
Whatever the merits of Le Fanu's collection of short stories, the Wordsworth edition is dismal.

The typesetting errors are so frequent that it was only after some investigation that I began to believe that mine is not a bootlegged copy. The most common faults are wandering sem;i-colons, and all exclamation marks replaced with a space followed by a personal pronoun I this can cause confusion when placed in the middle of a sentence, as Le Fanu's old prose does not include capital letters following an exclamation mark.

Undoubtedly cheap, but only really worth it as an excercise in deciphering.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Gothic splendour!
Sheridan Le Fanu's classic collection of Gothic fiction is a delight for the connoiseur of weird tales. These stories are gathered as belonging to the papers of one Dr. Read more
Published 7 months ago by D. De Gruijter

3.0 out of 5 stars Probably only scary if you suffer from a nervous psychological disorder
Some books are so bad that you just can't finish them. This isn't one of those books. Which is unforunate as when you read it you constantly wish you weren't. Read more
Published 18 months ago by S. Pollard

5.0 out of 5 stars Five of Le Fanu's longer short stories
'In a Glass Darkly' is a collection of hair-raising tales selected from those recorded by Dr Martin Hesselius during the many years he spent working to understand and explain the... Read more
Published on 23 Dec 2006 by T. Bobley

5.0 out of 5 stars superficial tales- real or imagination?
The classic in the ghost story genre. Most of his
followers as M.R. James or E.F. Benson admitt that they were highly inspired by J.S. LeFanu. Read more
Published on 6 Jun 2002 by Bernd Philipp

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